United Arab Emirates

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Key facts

  • Currency: U.A.E. dirham
  • Capital city: Abu Dhabi
  • Region: Western Asia
  • Continent: Asia
  • Land area: 71,020 km²
  • Population: 9,441,129
  • Political Leader: Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (President)

Latest news

United Arab Emirates is using cloud seeding tech to make it rain

Read: CNBC News

2024-03-18

Intense rainfall sweeps across Dubai and the wider United Arab Emirates, disrupting flights

Read: ABC News

2024-03-09

Intense rainfall sweeps across Dubai and the wider United Arab Emirates, disrupting flights

Read: The Star

2024-03-09

Collector Fady Jameel: 'I feel privileged to have been involved in this incredible transformation of the arts scenes in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates'

Read: The Art Newspaper

2024-02-27

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in the United Arab Emirates on his seventh trip to the nation

Read: Fox News

2024-02-13

United Arab Emirates to build NASA Gateway airlock, send astronaut on Artemis mission

Read: Phys

2024-01-08

'The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are no longer aligned with US policy'

Read: Le Monde

2023-12-15

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 1.85 % of GDP
Expense 4.34 % of GDP
GDP 507,064,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 4.83 annual %
Self-employed 4.47 % of total employment
Tax revenue 0.54 % of GDP
Unemployment 2.97 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 1.16 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 3,915.61 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 0.10 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 188,089.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 98.53 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 1.24 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 0.23 % of total
Net energy imports -183.84 % of energy use
Fertility rate 1.46 births per woman
Forest area 3,173 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 86.13 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -16,708.70 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 29.30 years
Methane emissions 56,944.70 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 1,829.64 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 2,893,385
Male Population 6,547,744
Renewable energy consumption 0.92 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 77,233.30 km²
Rural population 1,176,081
Urban land area 2,263.10 km²
Urban population 8,265,048
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 25.50 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 10.31 per 1,000 people
Death rate 1.87 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 2,191.81 current US$
Health expenditure 5.67 % of GDP
Hospital beds 1.38 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 79 years
Suicide mortality rate 6.40 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 100.00 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 100.00 % of population
Net migration 0
Press freedom 1.79


Politics

Armed forces personnel 63,000
Democracy score 2.76
Democracy type Authoritarian
Military expenditure 5.64 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 50.00 %


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Coordinates: [24°0′N, 54°0′N]
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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

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